Computational Visual Media
DOI 10.1007/s41095-015-0001-9
Editorial
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
Shi-Min Hu

c The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
It is my great pleasure and excitement to announce
the launch of a new journal, Computational Visual
Media, which will publish original, high-quality,
peer-reviewed research papers and review articles on
novel ideas, methods, and systems for visual media.
With the rapid development of multiple
technologies, from the Internet to mobile phones and
cameras, visual media are now widely available in
great quantity and wide variety, bringing significant
opportunities for novel computational processing
of visual media. The topics include classification,
composition, retrieval, synthesis, analysis, rendering,
and understanding of visual media.
Computational Visual Media is an ideal vehicle
in which to publish and disseminate relevant
research findings, and in which to exchange novel
research ideas and significant practical results in
both underpinning and applying visual media. We
further hope this new journal will stimulate cross
disciplinary research which amalgamates aspects
of computer graphics, computer vision, image and
video processing, geometric computing, and machine
learning. The journal’s scope includes but is not
limited to:
• 3D visual media processing
• Classification and composition of visual media
• Cognition of visual media
• Content security for visual media
• Enhancement and re-rendering of visual media
• Geometric computing for images and video
• Interactive editing of visual media
Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2015, 1
• Machine learning for visual media
• Social media computing
• Understanding of visual media
• Visual media retrieval
• Visualization and visual analytics
The journal will be published quarterly. This
first issue with 8 papers is a special issue
devoted to the 3rd International Conference on
Computational Visual Media, which was held at
Tsinghua University, China, during April 15–16,
2015. The topics of these papers cover a wide
spectrum of ideas concerning image decomposition,
smoothing, completion, denoising and stylization
to Poisson disk sampling, cartoon structure line
extraction, and sketch-based modeling.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank
the two Associate Editors-in-Chief, Ming C. Lin and
Ralph R. Martin, for their great efforts for launching
this new journal. I would also like to thank the 27
founding Associate Editors for their assistance and
support.
Shi-Min Hu
Department of Computer Science and Technology,
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Tel: 86-10-62782052
E-mail: shimin@tsinghua.edu.cn
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